On September 11th, 2004, the U.S. Government and all the heads of states of the Western world once again remembered the brutal attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Flight United Airlines UA 175 hit the South Tower,

Flight American Airlines AA 11 crashed into the North Tower of the WTC.

Flight American Airlines AA 77 collided with the Pentagon.

Flight United Airlines UA 93 was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

People from 60 nations were among the victims. The crumbling of the World Trade Center, which led to Ground Zero, is by some leading personalities considered to be the commencement of a new era. Things will never again be as they were before. The German head of state at that time, Johannes Rau, expressed his deep sympathy with the following statement on September 14th, 2001:

“We Germans are with our thoughts and feelings in America. We all still have the awful pictures before us. They simply do not leave us. Together we were witnesses of the murderous acts of violence as the world has never experienced except in times of war.

We think about mothers and fathers who lost their children.

We think about the children who will never see their parents again.

We think about all who lost friends and colleagues.

We think about the immeasurable harm brought upon thousands of families through hatred and terror …”

On this day of remembrance, the government in Washington and the U.S. media placed great emphasis on the fact that the United States of America are very deeply connected to God through religion, “One Nation Under God”. We were repeatedly reminded of the Founding Fathers, who fled the religious persecution in Europe and established Protestantism with freedom of speech, conscience, and religion. That is very honourable, but by far not sufficient. In all reality, having a relationship with God through religion is simply not possible. Religion actually ties people to a system and, at the same time, separates them from God. If the U.S. President had an intimate fellowship with God as a born-again person, then he would indeed have to be a peacemaker. However, instead of loving his enemy and thereby heaping coals of fire on his head (Rom. 12:20), he re-introduced the enmity into the Muslim world, and the message of reconciliation, forgiveness, and peace with God through Jesus Christ our LORD was made untrustworthy. Revenge and terror are not the solution. A born-again Christian prays, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” It would be far better for the President of a country in which supposedly over 50 % of the population is comprised of born-again Christians to not simply say, “God bless America!”, but rather to remember the promise God gave to Abraham, “In thee all the families of the earth be blessed …” (Gen. 12:3; Gal. 3:8). This happened in Jesus Christ, our LORD (Gal. 3:14)

On October 7th, 2001, President George W. Bush gave the “Go ahead!” for the military attack in Afghanistan, going against article 1 of the Atlantic Treaty of April 4th, 1949. Thereby the Taliban regime was to be brought down. Then followed, as all know, the military attack against Iraq on March 20th, 2003. And the end is not yet in view. The inspectors Mohammed Elbaradei and Hans Blix had to end their mission and leave Iraq, so the military action could begin. Baghdad and other cities were destroyed. The entire population suffers like in any regular war. According to the “Herold Tribune”, dated Oct. 29th, 2004, the death toll has already reached 100,000 civilians, comprised mainly of mothers and children. More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have also lost their lives. What a tragedy! The main concern was Saddam Hussein, who was supposedly collaborating with Bin Laden and could trigger his weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. For his capture and delivery the U.S. government paid 25 million dollars.

Who benefits from the following declaration made by the U.S. President, “We have a better world after Saddam Hussein!”, when obviously the contrary is the case? How trustworthy is the British Prime Minister, who made a similar declaration, “The world is safer after Saddam Hussein.”, when we hear daily reports about new bombs and radicals who blow themselves up, resulting in many victims. Most of the Europeans and also a large number of U.S. citizens cannot comprehend that terror is being fought with terror. The world community is being misled and deceived by politics and through religion. If the money that is spent every day for the war — which is no actual war, as there is no governmentally organised opposing army in the country — would be given for the poor, then that would be a much better way to fight terrorism.

But because we are living in the end-time, all these things have to happen and the preparations must be made, so the apocalyptic judgements can set in. The four judgement angels are bound for the hour and day (Rev. 9:13-21) at the river Euphrates. The Euphrates is already mentioned in Gen. 2:14, in connection with the Garden of Eden. It was the frontier between East and West. According to Bible prophecy, the Euphrates River will dry up, so the kings coming from the East can proceed with their invasion into the Holy Land, into Israel (Rev. 16:12). Mainly the countries north of Israel will partake in the greatest battle on this side of the Millennial reign (Ezech. 38) — it will be an enormous army, the likes of which has never been and shall not be again (Joel 2:2). Everything in connection with Armageddon is in full preparation, the U.S. government is doing its part, so that all the other nations who are against Israel are mobilised. Then the world will be in flames and the third part of humanity will be destroyed. Our prayers especially go out on behalf of Israel, which is having to face increasing difficulties, until finally all nations will turn against God’s people (Zech. 12:3). The developments in the end-time are underway, no one is going to stop this and all things will happen the way they are predicted in end-time prophecy. Mr. George W. Bush needs the second term as President, so he can fulfil what he believes to be the work and predestined “will of God” through his office.

Yassir Arafat was not really a Palestinian. He was born in Cairo as Rahman Abdal Raouf on August 4th, 1929. Amazingly enough, Arafat was spared, although he was the true father and founder of terrorism. As a teenager he already participated in actions against the British mandate. In 1959 he started the terrorist organisation Al Fatah. Ten years later he presided over the PLO. After his stay in Tunisia, he took up residence in the West Bank. In the year 2000 he negotiated in Camp David with Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton about a Palestinian state. As the head of the terrorism aimed at the state of Israel, wherein all Palestinians found work and daily bread, social security, and the right to dwell, he nevertheless openly or secretly supported all Islamic terrorist organisations. The same Yassir Arafat was honoured with the Nobel prize for peace, received 10 million Euros every month from the EU in Brussels and transferred his riches to France and Switzerland. He was finally taken to Paris for treatment of his acute illness, where he eventually deceased.

The whole world knows that all inhabitants in the West Bank — whether in the Gaza strip or in Jericho — had a better life than the rest of the Arab nations. There was no unemployment, the tourism flourished, all the tourist groups could visit Bethlehem and Jericho and they brought prosperity, but then came the division and the autonomy, the intifada, and the terror followed. The actual hatred in the religion of Mohammed is directed against the Jews, whom God Himself has chosen through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the year 627 the Islamic “prophet” had the entire Jewish settlement in Yathrib slaughtered — between seven and eight hundred people, because they rejected him as prophet. This deadly hatred still exists until today among his followers. True believers become martyrs when they are persecuted because of their faith. In the Islamic religion the murderers are considered to be martyrs, those killers who neither spare their own lives nor the lives of others. In view of the attacks on the U.S.A. Bin Laden said, “You love life, we love death.” The Islamic world regards the U.S.A. as the “big Satan”, because they are taking sides with Israel. Finally, Bin Laden confessed that the attack on the World Trade Center was meant to unsettle the good relationship between the U.S.A. and Israel. On September 11th, 2004, Bin Laden proudly declared, “The bombs we are preparing carry the name Hiroshima, and they are directed toward the United States of America, which will be turned into a Hiroshima.” In 1933 Brother Branham already saw seven main visions of the things that would happen in the end-time. In the seventh vision he saw the United States destroyed.

In the sixth vision Brother Branham saw a beautifully clothed woman sitting on some kind of royal throne in the U.S.A. In his footnote he wrote, “Perhaps the Catholic Church!” Starting with John F. Kennedy, a good relationship with the Vatican has played a major role in the political careers of the presidents of the U.S.A. The visits of George W. Bush to the Pope made headlines. However, we still have to view things from the Bible perspective. The Protestant U.S.A., the only super-power left after World War II and the fall of “world communism” in 1989, is shown as the second beast in Rev. 13:11-18. At first it speaks like a lamb, allows freedom of speech and religion, but then, at last, it speaks like the dragon and brings the whole world to acknowledge the first beast power, which is the Old Roman Empire that is now rising again in the European Union.

We have arrived at a very important junction within the course of the end-time history. On March 25th, 1957, the three statesmen Adenauer, Schuman, and De Gasperi, representing Germany, France, and Italy, signed the “Roman Treaty”. In that same room, right at the feet of Pope Innocence X, the twenty-five representatives of the European Union signed the European Constitution on October 29th, 2004. The three representatives of the next countries to join the European Union, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey, also gave their signatures in recognition of the Treaty. The platform for the world-order, the world-government, the world-community is set. Whoever wishes may read Daniel 2:40, Daniel 7:23, and also Daniel 8:25 and then continue with Revelation 13:1-10 and chapter 17. The last world power is compared to the beast which comes out from the sea of people and wherein all countries shall be included, but seven of them will be the leading heads and ten of them will be the horns that will do the pushing at the appointed time. The other countries just make up the other parts of that body.

We cannot go into further details of the developments right now, but we have to emphasise that the end might be much closer than many think. Indeed, Bible prophecy is taking place on every level, in a manner that can be seen and heard by all. We just need to encourage one another with the words of our LORD, “So also ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is near at hand.”

On September 11th, 2004, the U.S. Government and all the heads of states of the Western world once again remembered the brutal attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Flight United Airlines UA 175 hit the South Tower,

Flight American Airlines AA 11 crashed into the North Tower of the WTC.

Flight American Airlines AA 77 collided with the Pentagon.

Flight United Airlines UA 93 was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

People from 60 nations were among the victims. The crumbling of the World Trade Center, which led to Ground Zero, is by some leading personalities considered to be the commencement of a new era. Things will never again be as they were before. The German head of state at that time, Johannes Rau, expressed his deep sympathy with the following statement on September 14th, 2001:

“We Germans are with our thoughts and feelings in America. We all still have the awful pictures before us. They simply do not leave us. Together we were witnesses of the murderous acts of violence as the world has never experienced except in times of war.

We think about mothers and fathers who lost their children.

We think about the children who will never see their parents again.

We think about all who lost friends and colleagues.

We think about the immeasurable harm brought upon thousands of families through hatred and terror …”

On this day of remembrance, the government in Washington and the U.S. media placed great emphasis on the fact that the United States of America are very deeply connected to God through religion, “One Nation Under God”. We were repeatedly reminded of the Founding Fathers, who fled the religious persecution in Europe and established Protestantism with freedom of speech, conscience, and religion. That is very honourable, but by far not sufficient. In all reality, having a relationship with God through religion is simply not possible. Religion actually ties people to a system and, at the same time, separates them from God. If the U.S. President had an intimate fellowship with God as a born-again person, then he would indeed have to be a peacemaker. However, instead of loving his enemy and thereby heaping coals of fire on his head (Rom. 12:20), he re-introduced the enmity into the Muslim world, and the message of reconciliation, forgiveness, and peace with God through Jesus Christ our LORD was made untrustworthy. Revenge and terror are not the solution. A born-again Christian prays, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” It would be far better for the President of a country in which supposedly over 50 % of the population is comprised of born-again Christians to not simply say, “God bless America!”, but rather to remember the promise God gave to Abraham, “In thee all the families of the earth be blessed …” (Gen. 12:3; Gal. 3:8). This happened in Jesus Christ, our LORD (Gal. 3:14)

On October 7th, 2001, President George W. Bush gave the “Go ahead!” for the military attack in Afghanistan, going against article 1 of the Atlantic Treaty of April 4th, 1949. Thereby the Taliban regime was to be brought down. Then followed, as all know, the military attack against Iraq on March 20th, 2003. And the end is not yet in view. The inspectors Mohammed Elbaradei and Hans Blix had to end their mission and leave Iraq, so the military action could begin. Baghdad and other cities were destroyed. The entire population suffers like in any regular war. According to the “Herold Tribune”, dated Oct. 29th, 2004, the death toll has already reached 100,000 civilians, comprised mainly of mothers and children. More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have also lost their lives. What a tragedy! The main concern was Saddam Hussein, who was supposedly collaborating with Bin Laden and could trigger his weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. For his capture and delivery the U.S. government paid 25 million dollars.

Who benefits from the following declaration made by the U.S. President, “We have a better world after Saddam Hussein!”, when obviously the contrary is the case? How trustworthy is the British Prime Minister, who made a similar declaration, “The world is safer after Saddam Hussein.”, when we hear daily reports about new bombs and radicals who blow themselves up, resulting in many victims. Most of the Europeans and also a large number of U.S. citizens cannot comprehend that terror is being fought with terror. The world community is being misled and deceived by politics and through religion. If the money that is spent every day for the war — which is no actual war, as there is no governmentally organised opposing army in the country — would be given for the poor, then that would be a much better way to fight terrorism.

But because we are living in the end-time, all these things have to happen and the preparations must be made, so the apocalyptic judgements can set in. The four judgement angels are bound for the hour and day (Rev. 9:13-21) at the river Euphrates. The Euphrates is already mentioned in Gen. 2:14, in connection with the Garden of Eden. It was the frontier between East and West. According to Bible prophecy, the Euphrates River will dry up, so the kings coming from the East can proceed with their invasion into the Holy Land, into Israel (Rev. 16:12). Mainly the countries north of Israel will partake in the greatest battle on this side of the Millennial reign (Ezech. 38) — it will be an enormous army, the likes of which has never been and shall not be again (Joel 2:2). Everything in connection with Armageddon is in full preparation, the U.S. government is doing its part, so that all the other nations who are against Israel are mobilised. Then the world will be in flames and the third part of humanity will be destroyed. Our prayers especially go out on behalf of Israel, which is having to face increasing difficulties, until finally all nations will turn against God’s people (Zech. 12:3). The developments in the end-time are underway, no one is going to stop this and all things will happen the way they are predicted in end-time prophecy. Mr. George W. Bush needs the second term as President, so he can fulfil what he believes to be the work and predestined “will of God” through his office.

Yassir Arafat was not really a Palestinian. He was born in Cairo as Rahman Abdal Raouf on August 4th, 1929. Amazingly enough, Arafat was spared, although he was the true father and founder of terrorism. As a teenager he already participated in actions against the British mandate. In 1959 he started the terrorist organisation Al Fatah. Ten years later he presided over the PLO. After his stay in Tunisia, he took up residence in the West Bank. In the year 2000 he negotiated in Camp David with Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton about a Palestinian state. As the head of the terrorism aimed at the state of Israel, wherein all Palestinians found work and daily bread, social security, and the right to dwell, he nevertheless openly or secretly supported all Islamic terrorist organisations. The same Yassir Arafat was honoured with the Nobel prize for peace, received 10 million Euros every month from the EU in Brussels and transferred his riches to France and Switzerland. He was finally taken to Paris for treatment of his acute illness, where he eventually deceased.

The whole world knows that all inhabitants in the West Bank — whether in the Gaza strip or in Jericho — had a better life than the rest of the Arab nations. There was no unemployment, the tourism flourished, all the tourist groups could visit Bethlehem and Jericho and they brought prosperity, but then came the division and the autonomy, the intifada, and the terror followed. The actual hatred in the religion of Mohammed is directed against the Jews, whom God Himself has chosen through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In the year 627 the Islamic “prophet” had the entire Jewish settlement in Yathrib slaughtered — between seven and eight hundred people, because they rejected him as prophet. This deadly hatred still exists until today among his followers. True believers become martyrs when they are persecuted because of their faith. In the Islamic religion the murderers are considered to be martyrs, those killers who neither spare their own lives nor the lives of others. In view of the attacks on the U.S.A. Bin Laden said, “You love life, we love death.” The Islamic world regards the U.S.A. as the “big Satan”, because they are taking sides with Israel. Finally, Bin Laden confessed that the attack on the World Trade Center was meant to unsettle the good relationship between the U.S.A. and Israel. On September 11th, 2004, Bin Laden proudly declared, “The bombs we are preparing carry the name Hiroshima, and they are directed toward the United States of America, which will be turned into a Hiroshima.” In 1933 Brother Branham already saw seven main visions of the things that would happen in the end-time. In the seventh vision he saw the United States destroyed.

In the sixth vision Brother Branham saw a beautifully clothed woman sitting on some kind of royal throne in the U.S.A. In his footnote he wrote, “Perhaps the Catholic Church!” Starting with John F. Kennedy, a good relationship with the Vatican has played a major role in the political careers of the presidents of the U.S.A. The visits of George W. Bush to the Pope made headlines. However, we still have to view things from the Bible perspective. The Protestant U.S.A., the only super-power left after World War II and the fall of “world communism” in 1989, is shown as the second beast in Rev. 13:11-18. At first it speaks like a lamb, allows freedom of speech and religion, but then, at last, it speaks like the dragon and brings the whole world to acknowledge the first beast power, which is the Old Roman Empire that is now rising again in the European Union.

We have arrived at a very important junction within the course of the end-time history. On March 25th, 1957, the three statesmen Adenauer, Schuman, and De Gasperi, representing Germany, France, and Italy, signed the “Roman Treaty”. In that same room, right at the feet of Pope Innocence X, the twenty-five representatives of the European Union signed the European Constitution on October 29th, 2004. The three representatives of the next countries to join the European Union, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey, also gave their signatures in recognition of the Treaty. The platform for the world-order, the world-government, the world-community is set. Whoever wishes may read Daniel 2:40, Daniel 7:23, and also Daniel 8:25 and then continue with Revelation 13:1-10 and chapter 17. The last world power is compared to the beast which comes out from the sea of people and wherein all countries shall be included, but seven of them will be the leading heads and ten of them will be the horns that will do the pushing at the appointed time. The other countries just make up the other parts of that body.

We cannot go into further details of the developments right now, but we have to emphasise that the end might be much closer than many think. Indeed, Bible prophecy is taking place on every level, in a manner that can be seen and heard by all. We just need to encourage one another with the words of our LORD, “So also ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is near at hand.”